数字经济与民生协调发展:数字政府的调节作用

oordinated Development of Digital Economy and People’s Livelihood:the Moderating Effect of Digital Government

数字经济突破性创新对民生发展带来错综复杂的影响,给治理体系和治理能力提出了新的要求。数字政府建设是政府对经济演进到数字形态的自我适应,有望成为政府有效应对数字经济发展带来的民生挑战的破局之策。然而,目前从理论和实证层面深入探究数字政府、数字经济和民生三者之间关系的研究尚较为缺乏。本文从理论上梳理数字经济对民生发展的影响机制以及数字政府在保障数字经济促进民生发展中的作用机制。在此基础上,以中国城市为研究对象,利用面板数据固定效应模型和工具变量法进行实证分析。研究结果显示中国数字经济在起步阶段对民生发展的影响以促进作用为主,异质性分析结果显示数字经济对民生发展的促进作用在西部地区最大、东部地区次之、中部地区最小;数字政府在数字经济促进民生发展中起到正向调节作用。研究发现能为新时代数字政府在数字经济与民生协调发展中发挥重要作用提供理论和实践依据。

Breakthrough innovations in the digital economy have had a complex impact on the development of people’s livelihood,and put forward new requirements for the governance system and governance capabilities.The construction of digital government is the self-adaptation of the government to the evolution of the economy to the digital form,and it is expected to become a breakthrough strategy for the government to effectively deal with the challenges of people’s livelihood brought about by the digital economy development.However,related studies lack a systematic determination of the relationship between digital government,digital economy and people’s livelihood from the theoretical and empirical levels.Therefore,this paper theoretically sorts out the influence mechanism of the digital economy on people’s livelihood development,and the role of digital government in ensuring that the digital economy promotes the development of people’s livelihood.Furthermore,this paper takes cities in China as the research object,and uses the panel data fixed effects model and instrumental variable method to conduct an empirical analysis of the moderating effect.The results show that China’s digital economy plays an active role in people’s livelihood at the initial stage.The heterogeneity analysis results show that the promotion effect of digital economy on people’s livelihood development is the largest in the western region,followed by the eastern region,and the smallest in the central region.And digital government can enhance this effect.The research findings can provide theoretical and practical basis for digital government to play an important role in the coordinated development of digital economy and people’s livelihood in the new era.